Otherwise Known as the Human Condition · Selected Essays and Reviews by Dyer, Geoff -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Page Also by Geoff Dyer Title Page Copyright Dedication Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction Visuals

Jacques Henri Lartigue and the Discovery of India Robert Capa If I Die in a Combat Zone Ruth Orkin’s V-E Day Richard Avedon Enrique Metinides Joel Sternfeld’s Utopian Visions Alec Soth: Riverrun Richard Misrach William Gedney Michael Ackerman Miroslav Tichý Saving Grace: Todd Hido Idris Khan Edward Burtynsky Turner and Memory The American Sublime The Awakening of Stones: Rodin Ecce Homo

Verbals

D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night Pounding Print Richard Ford: Independence Day James Salter: The Hunters Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke Ian McEwan: Atonement Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs Don DeLillo: Point Omega The Goncourt Journals Rebecca West: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon John Cheever: The Journals Ryszard Kapuściński’s African Life W. G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard Regarding the Achievement of Others: Susan Sontag The Moral Art of War

Musicals

“My Favorite Things” Ramamani Def Leppard and the Anthropology of Supermodernity Editions of Contemporary Me Is Jazz Dead? Cherry Street

Variables

Blues for Vincent Loving and Admiring: Camus’s Algeria Oradour-sur-Glane Parting Shots The Wrong Stuff Fabulous Clothes The 2004 Olympics Sex and Hotels What Will Survive of Us

Personals

The Airfix Generation Comics in a Man’s Life Violets of Pride On Being an Only Child Sacked On the Roof Unpacking My Library Reader’s Block My Life as a Gate-Crasher Something Didn’t Happen Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with particular reference to Doughnut Plant doughnuts) Of Course

Sources and Acknowledgments About the Author